First of all - that's great you've found the way to control the font in Gtkdialog GUI.
I didn't know how to do it until now, thanks!

As for adding a new note, here's an example (perhaps there are better methods, but I always use something like this).
I made it "stand-alone" for clarity, but I'm sure you can adapt it to your reader easily:

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